Saturday 23 March 2024, 7.30pm
eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum of talks, roundtables and provocations. We hope to stimulate your ears and your imagination by presenting new work by eight artists working at the experimental fringes of a variety of genres. The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night. During this year’s forum we will explore the topic ‘Experiments in Failure’. The vibe is low-key and friendly, whilst definitely being thought-provoking.
PLEASE NOTE: doors open 7.30pm; music starts 8pm (and ends by 10pm).
eavesdropping
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Excited by experimentalism, we create opportunities for artists and audiences to practise engaged listening and compassionate debate. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and training and development workshops. Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.
https://www.eavesdropping.london
The recipient of the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer award, ANNA DENNIS’s opera performances include Katie Mitchell’s New Dark Age at the Royal Opera House, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at Drottningholm Slottsteater and Damon Albarn’s Dr Dee: An English Opera. She recently created the title role of Violet in Tom Coult’s debut opera, premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival. In concert she has sung with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestra of St Luke’s in New York, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Orquestra Gulbenkian and Sinfonietta Riga. Notably, Anna sang in Britten’s War Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie and in Thomas Ades’ Life Story, accompanied by the composer, at New York’s White Light Festival. This season she has performed Antony Burgess’s setting of TS Eliot’s The Wasteland with Benedict Cumberbatch and Britten Sinfonia at the Charleston Festival, Bach’s Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut with Kristian Bezuidenhout in Riga, and premiered Julian Anderson’s Nunca Vi Granada with BCMG.
FARIDA AMADOU is a self-taught bass player based in Brussels, Belgium. The electric bass has been her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she has started to play a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop; soon she started to dive into improvised music, and was rapidly identified by local collectives and musicians. After a year (2017) as bass player in Belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, Farida decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations with musicians such as Steve Noble, Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Terrie Ex, Lukas Koening, Pat Thomas and Julien Desprez, among others, occasionally also featuring with groups such as Jerusalem in My Heart and Moor Mother.
